That last case was easily one of the craziest, intense, and fun cases I had ever had the pleasure of playing. The reveals caught me off guard, which most of the cases are easy to just go, “Bad guy is clearly bad.” Love that game.

The last case of Dual Destinies has Wright and Edgeworth facing off, as they did in AA1 and the last case of Justice for All. There’s a cutscene right as the trial starts, where Edgeworth takes off his spectacles in a dramatic way. (He goes through the whole trial not wearing them, even though he’s always wearing them outside the courtroom.)

It’s just poking fun at Edgeworth needing (or not needing) glasses. And this comic’s humorous take on it certainly made me smile. The joke is pretty simple; there’s not much hidden meaning behind it – which is good, as jokes that are easy to understand are the most well-received.

And on that note, happy birthday Coela! May you continue to live life as you always do – exhilarating, manly, and always finding ways to make people smile.

…dramatically removing your glasses leaves you unable to see? That doesn’t make any sense! I suppose next you’re gonna tell us that pumping a shotgun to intimidate punks does something like eject an unused shell?

(ARGH! I forgot about timeline differences!….but wait….isn’t there a flaw in Coelasquid’s logic…? …EUREKA!)

OBJECTION! That means from Murjana’s testimony and yours…by comparing the timelines, at this current moment in time, EDGEWORTH IS YOUNGER THAN YOU! Ergo, Murjana’s testimony is either a compliment or false on its own merits!

I’ve been reading these for a few months now but this is the first time I’ve written anything and can I just say, Wow it’s amazing, it’s like every character ive ever wanted to see in one comic and its here! And you know how to handle them all as well :D

*Sight* Growing up in a legal family just means I can’t even watch someone play Ace Attorney without being pissed off at how fast and loose they are with legal procedure. You don’t deserve to wear that Atticus Finch inspired three-piece suit Phoenix Wright!

Not that I disagree, but that’s like martial artists complaining about Devil May Cry or RWBY being unrealistic.
Granted, I hear both those complaints regularly, so perhaps yours deserves a little more attention to pull even!
…I’m not sure where I was going with this.

The entire conceit of the story is that the court system has gotten so weird and shitty and clotted up that everything gets resolved in three-day-or-less flash trials. Like that’s like watching Iron man and being like “this is ridiculous, these jet propulsion exoskeletons are completely a work of fiction that isn’t a real thing!”

I’ve always found it a little odd that that very thing was directly explained in the 1st game (Phoenix only took 15 seconds or so to explain it, but it was there), though in every subsequent game it’s not mentioned or even handwaved to be taken for granted.

It was a little disappointing that the Jurist System thing (as seen in Apollo’s last case) isn’t seen or even mentioned in Dual Destinies. Not that I’m ragging on DD or anything (I love it and still do), but that quick of a time limit for trials isn’t really explained outside of AA1.

Funnily enough, the one time where it seemed to make the most sense (to me) was in AA5’s last trial (yes, the one the comic mentions) in which they only have 1 day to do it all in. Yes it’s prolonged a little, but you really felt like you were in a race against the clock there. …Oh, and AA2’s last trial as well. That one gave me goosebumps and I think I stayed up past midnight to finish it the first time around. So good.

I’m an engineer and all I think when watching Iron man is “FVCK!!, I need to become ludicrously rich ASAP!”. Also Happy Birthday girl, now imagine I smack your face against a cake at some point of the day

Have you given the new Ace Attorney Investigations 2 english fan translation a try yet? It finally came out last month or so, and I’d give it five stars for feeling just like the other official AA english translations.

It comes up as the second result on google for “AAI2 translation”, at least for my google bubble, on gbatemp.

Happy Birthday!!!
I haven’t played AA before so I don’t know if Edgeworth regularly wears glasses, but if so, then I feel his pain. No glasses for me is like permanent night blindness, except without the night part.

Yeah, this trope made more sense when the glasses were reading glasses, and you put them on to read plot-critical-information, then took off your glasses at just the right moment to deliver a coup-de-grace badass statement, like “take him away” or “we’re done here” or something like that.

Because you don’t need your reading glasses to look the other guy in the eye and say “enjoy spending the rest of your life in prison”. In fact, they kinda get in the way.